Youtube was created in 2003. This is what it looked like two years later, and a year before it was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.
2005 vs. 2010...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Easy Postcards
Nobody sends hand-written letters anymore; except for inept grandmas who refuse to learn "electronic mail technology." I have, however, sent post cards during my recent vacations (or at least considered doing so because I'm too cheap and lazy). It's easy to do and a nice gesture, a reason why they are still alive at every tourist spot in the world.
Postagram ultra-simplifies (and even improves) postcards. By integrating with Instagram, a picture sharing mobile app, Postagram lets you use a picture you have taken to create a postcard and send it with just a few clicks. The price: $0.99. I'm assuming this pays off for the company. If so, yet another "why-didn't-I-think-of-that" genius idea.
Founded: 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Short And Sweet
Facebook Questions was a pretty good idea. There is no doubt that it has sparked some uneasy conversations in the Google offices as it "threatens to threaten" the search business. Now, as you may have guessed by the company logo the business here is plain and simple: 140 character questions, 140 character answers.
TwitQA provides an online platform for asking/answering questions and delivers them through Twitter. Users can choose a category and find simple to simple questions. This is what should differentiate this site. But they better move fast before Twitter likes the idea too much (and I'm not talking about becoming a fan on their Facebook page).
Founded: 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wayback Machine Wednesdays
Wow, Wednesday again. Well, why don't we watch what happens when we put the New York Knicks website into the Wayback Machine?
2002...
2011...
Help Me Read Please, Thanks
I don't like Google reader. It does provide me with a nice interface for reading articles from my favorite sites. But I have a lot of favorite sites, and they publish a lot of articles. So if i go three days without the reader I come back to hundreds (if not thousands) of unread articles and it just becomes easier to select what I want straight from the websites.
Summify takes in your information (in my case from Facebook) and uses its very clever algorithms to deliver you stories that you will hopefully enjoy. It does this daily although you can decide how often you want a new set of stores. Just what I've been looking for.
Founded: 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wayback Machine Wednesdays
If you are tired of startups then just visit the blog on Wednesdays for the new "Wayback Machine Wednesdays" section. Here I will just show how websites have changed over time. Yes, yes, you can just go to the site yourself, but I will hand-pick those that I find the most interesting and serve them to you on a post. Today, lets start with everyone's second favorite soft drink...
1996 vs. 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Netflix for Art
Like the title states, the idea of Artsicle is to create a place where pieces of art can be rented out like Netflix movies and, of course, we are not talking about online streaming. Up and coming (NYC) artists can promote their work on this site. And for $50 a month, people can rent a favorite piece and keep it as long as they want, or change it every week if desired. For those who end up loving the art, the site offers the chance to purchase it through them. Great exposure for artists, and a (relatively) cheap way of decorating your walls.
Founded: 2010
Website: artsicle.com
Blog: The Artsicle Blog
Twitter: @artsicle
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